Server admin page help


On this page you can set up how the site should function and enable or disable functions.

Add or Delete Game takes you to the page where you can make new games and remove games.

Write new news brings you to a page where you can write a news flash, this will be shown on the game main page and if you wish it will be mailed to all players in your game.

When there is a button infront of a textbox you must press the button to the left of the textbox to save the changes you've made, it will then only save the changes in the textbox associated to that particular button!

Change site Admin password enables you to change the password needed to enter the server admin page. The current is shown in the textbox, if you alter this you must press the "Change site Admin password" button to save the change.

Change site owner info is associated to the two textfields "Site owner name" and "Site owner e-mail adress".
These are the informations that will be used to produce the "Mail server host" buttons that are displayed on the site.

Change site title enables you to change the title that will be displayed at the index choose game page.

Change site adress , this adress is put at the bottom of all automatic outgoing mails from the site. make sure it's correct! The adress should point to the directory where the index page is located, so don't include the page name, i e not index.php or html, end the adress with a slash "/".

Change local server timezone. For informationl purpose only. This will be pre-filled in all game set-ups. It's up to the game hosts to change this if they so wish. As all deadlines will be shown in your local server time, it will make it easier for the players to keep deadlines if this information is correct!.

Change Info Lines. The top info line will be shown above any news or other information on the index choose game page, and nowhere else. The bottom info line will be shown at the bottom of most pages on this server, including the game specific pages. So it could be a good place to show who is kind enough to let up webspace for this site.

Change auto mail options is associated to both the "SMTP" and "Account" text boxes. Here you can set the smtp adress of your mail server and your account information. If you are unsure you can check in your mail program where it will be displayed under your e-mail account information. This information must be provided here for the automail features to work; these are mail to the host when all players have uploaded and to all players when a new turn for a game exists.

Allow automails. Pressing this button switches between On and Off for the automail features. By setting this to off no automails will be sent from the server, totally disregarding all settings the game hosts may set.

Autoturns master switch Pressing this button switches between On and Off for the Autoturn feature of the autoturn.exe application. Setting this to off while the autoturn application is running will make the autoturn application execute game turns only when all players have uploaded their turns, it will not check for passed deadlines. Setting it to On will make the autoturn application aswell check for passed deadlines and execute those turns aswell. If the setting is set to On and the autoturn application is running it will be the game admin settings that decides if the individual games will run on fully automatic turns, when last player has uploaded or only manual turns.

Change autoturn.exe data will take you to the page where you can view the settings for the autoturn application and also start and close the application remotely. After this button there is some text displaying the current status of the autoturn application.


At the bottom of the page you have a Return to main page button to return to the index choose game page.